Thinking
This type of thinking is fast, intuitive, and automatic.
What is System 1 Thinking?
This many States comprised the United States in 1776.
What is 13?
Article I of the Constitution outlines this branch of the Federal Government.
What is the Legislative Branch? (Congress also an acceptable answer.)
Identify the rhetorical device most apparent in the following sentence:
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
What is a metaphor?
Locke believed people had the right to life, liberty, and this:
What is property?
This test asks you to name the color of words rather than read them, showing how hard it is to override System 1.
What is the Stroop Test?
Founded in 1607, this was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This compromise at the Constitutional Convention created a bicameral legislature.
What is the Great (or Connecticut) Compromise?
Identify the rhetorical device most apparent in the following sentence:
"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is...as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." - Thomas Jefferson
What is simile?
This 1776 document reflects Locke’s ideas of government by consent of the governed.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
The belief that other people are more biased than you are, while you assume you see the world objectively.
What is the Bias-Effect Bias? (Or the "I'm Not Biased" Bias)
This Son of Liberty famously warned the minutemen of Lexington and the surrounding that "the regulars are coming!"
Who is Paul Revere?
This 1786 farmer uprising in Massachusetts exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of the Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
Identify the rhetorical device most apparent in the following sentence:
"Give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry
What is parallelism?
This philosopher argued that the State of Nature made life "nasty, brutish, and short."
Who is Hobbes?
The shortcut where our current emotions—like fear, anger, or joy—shape our reasoning and decisions.
What is the Affect Heuristic?
This 1676 uprising by frontier settlers revealed tensions over land, labor, and race.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
During the Constitutional Convention, this plan called for representation based on state population.
What is The Virginia Plan?
Identify the rhetorical device most apparent in the following sentence:
"Freedom hath been hunted round the globe...England hath given her warning to depart." - Thomas Paine
What is personification?
This philosopher originated the idea of popular sovereignty (sovereignty lies within the general will of the people).
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
The belief that other people are more biased than you are, while you assume you see the world objectively.
What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
This 1767 series of acts taxed glass, paint, lead, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
According to Article I of the Constitution, this chamber is granted the sole power to originate tax and other appropriations bills.
What is the House of Representatives?
Identify the rhetorical device most apparent in the following sentence:
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." - Thomas Jefferson
What is juxtaposition? (What is parallelism? and What is chiasmus? are also acceptable)
This theory, illustrated by examples like grazing land, pollution, and traffic, shows how shared resources can be depleted when individuals act in self-interest.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?